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Hotel Casona Macondo Granada: Our $21 Room With a Pool
I don’t know what kind of accommodation you expect to get for $10 a night, but I certainly wasn’t expecting a beautiful little hotel with a swimming pool literally outside my bedroom door. And yet, that’s exactly what we found at Hotel Casona Macondo in Granada, Nicaragua. We were backpacking through all eight countries in Central America, trying to keep our budget around €20 a day, and accommodation was usually whatever cheap place we could find when we arrived somewhere. But Granada was different. After spending the previous night in a ridiculously basic room in Rivas, where the bathroom walls didn’t even reach the ceiling, I decided we deserved something…
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How to Get from Ometepe to Granada (and How We Actually Did It)
We had only spent about 24 hours on Ometepe Island, but somehow managed to pack a waterfall hike, a lost hostel key, a lot of sweating, and an unreasonable amount of chaos into that time. When it was time to leave, our plan was to continue to Granada. In theory, getting from Ometepe to Granada is actually pretty straightforward. In reality, we made it considerably more complicated than it needed to be. How to Get from Ometepe to Granada If you want to do this route the easy way, you basically have two options: local buses or a shared shuttle. The first part is the same either way. You take…
